Eat, pray, love
one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Like many others, around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. Although she had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want, including a husband, a home, and a successful career as a magazine writer, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. This is an account of her yearlong worldwide pursuit of pleasure, spiritual devotion, guidance, and what she really wanted out of life.
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Viajes, Travel, Biografía espiritual, New York Times bestseller, Biografía, Description and travel, Religious aspects of Self-realization, Self-realization in women, Spiritual biography, Viaje, Autoras estadounidenses, Autores estadounidenses, Religious aspects, Travel writers, Escritores de viajes, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2007-02-04, Self-realization, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Mujeres estadounidenses, Biography, Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- -- Travel, Travel writers -- United States -- Biography, Spiritual formation, Self-evaluation, Conduct of life, Anecdotes, Large type books, Self-actualization (Psychology), Influence, Divorce, Panic, Travels/Italy, India, and Indonesia, Women, united states, biography, Italy, description and travel, India, description and travel, Indonesia, description and travel, 18.06 Anglo-American literaturePeople
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Previously published: New York : Viking Penguin, 2006.
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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls "Anne Lamott's hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
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